“When the president appears on television, when his voice is broadcast over the radio, when he posts on social media. . . he reflects us back to ourselves.” Sarah Gerard on the President as orator and the importance of envisioning better futures. | McSweeney’s

The sport was dirty from top to bottom: On this, the first day of the 2018 World Cup, read an excerpt from Ken Bensinger’s Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World’s Biggest Sports Scandal. | BuzzFeed Reader